The United States Supreme Court has been lauded by such diverse members as conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist and liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the “crown jewel” of the Constitution for its power of judicial review.
The court should be venerated not because of the happenstance of personalities or ideological persuasion but because of its pivotal institutional role in the Constitution’s separation of powers in checking government abuses and saluting liberty as the glory of the United States.
James Madison, father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, elaborated, “independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights…
